The night of Tuesday to Wednesday, December 18, in the city center of Nancy, was under very high tension. The police were alerted because a hooded individual was walking around Place Carnot shortly before 1 a.m. with what looked like a Kalashnikov. Numerous police officers converged on the scene and, indeed, the individual was carrying the assault rifle.
Suicidal behavior
He points the weapon of war in the direction of the police. According to the first elements, the man would have adopted provocative behavior, inviting the police to open fire on his person.
An approach called by English speakers “suicide by cop” for “suicide by police officers”. The Nancy civil servants seemed to have in front of them this kind of desperate profile who wanted to put an end to it, without being able to go directly to the act itself, but hoping to fall under the bullets of the police.
It therefore took a lot of control and composure on the part of the responders to bring the situation to a standstill without any shots being fired. The man will be targeted by electric pulse weapon fire and then subdued.
Alcoholic individual
His assault rifle was in fact an air soft replica of a Kalashnikov which, as ammunition, fortunately does not fire 7.62 caliber but plastic pellets. The fact remains that before the arrest, at night, it is difficult to tell the difference between a toy and a weapon of war.
The arrested person’s state of health did not require transport to hospital by the firefighters present on the scene. Highly intoxicated, the individual was sobered up and then taken into police custody for his behavior which can be described as violence with a weapon against persons holding public authority.
